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Decision on Estrada's Run: Triumph of the Filipino People

Seeded on Thu Jan 21, 2010 3:49 PM EST

Article Source: The Daily Tribune (Without Fear or Favor)

world-news, elections, philippines, media-bias, estrada, edsa-2, elites, erap, comelec, may-2010

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Talk of Erap Estrada being disqualified, as well as rumors spread by both the Liberal Party (LP) and the Nacionalista Party (NP) camps that he is withdrawing from the presidential race and will be endorsing either party's standard bearer can now be laid to rest, after the Commission on Elections (Comelec)'s second division junked the three disqualification cases against the former President, on grounds that he is not the incumbent president seeking reelection, and the belief that the decision on who is to be elected president is best left to the sovereign people.

From the start, the anti-Erap media and the anti-Erap elite groups tried to demolish his candidacy by stressing that Estrada would be disqualified, giving out all arguments about his being banned from running for the same seat, in a bid to weaken his candidacy.....

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Catho-Olivares, Ninea. The Daily Tribune. 21 January 2010. http://www.tribune.net.ph/commentary/20100121com2.html

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Public Discussion (2)

Jesusa Bernardo

Even when Estrada officially announced his candidacy and that of his vice president and senatorial bets in Tondo, the anti-Erap media, even as they covered the proclamation rally, ensured that their guest panelists would all be anti-Erap individuals. Thus, as there was live video coverage in a box on the TV screen, there were the anchors and the panelists all saying that Erap will be disqualified anyway since he is constitutionally banned from running for the top post again.